Are your teams feeling the intense pressure to "produce more" in an era increasingly dominated by AI? Join hosts Ben Lloyd Pearson and Dan Lines as they unpack a major shift in how engineering organizations must now approach productivity. Dan reveals the urgent challenges he hears directly from CTOs and VPs, who are grappling with how to define their AI stra ... Show More
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NVIDIA acquires Hugging Face, OpenClaw 2.0 goes multiplayer, and the Linux kernel fights back against AI scrapers
This week on the Friday Deploy, Ben and Andrew unpack Nvidia's massive acquisition of Hugging Face and what it means for the future of localized models. They also explore the multiplayer updates in OpenClaw 2.0, how relentless AI scraper bots are overwhelming kernel.org, and how ... Show More
33m 46s
Sep 1
Why software factories fail without humans | HumanLayer, Warp & LinearB
In this special episode, Andrew hosts HumanLayer CEO Dexter Horthy, Warp Head of Product Engineering Aloke Desai, and LinearB COO Dan Lines. They debate why human ownership of pull requests remains nonnegotiable and how to implement "night vision" observability across automated w ... Show More
58m 39s
Aug 28
Build fences not sandboxes, earn the currency of trust, and share the cognitive burden of agents across engineers
This week on the Friday Deploy, Ben and Andrew evaluate the strange arrival of Ox Alpha and debate the security risks of black-box AI tools. They also explore why engineering trust is more critical than ever, revisit the controversial lines of code metric in the age of AI generat ... Show More
36 m
Aug 2025
Measuring AI code assistants and agents with the AI Measurement Framework
In this episode of Engineering Enablement, DX CTO Laura Tacho and CEO Abi Noda break down how to measure developer productivity in the age of AI using DX’s AI Measurement Framework. Drawing on research with industry leaders, vendors, and hundreds of organizations, they explain ho ... Show More
41m 13s
Jul 2025
Measuring the impact of AI on software engineering – with Laura Tacho
Supported by Our Partners• Statsig — The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more.• Graphite — The AI developer productivity platform.—There’s no shortage of bold claims about AI and developer productivity, but how do you separate signal from noise?In thi ... Show More
1h 11m
Sep 2025
Transforming R&D with AI: Breaking barriers and boosting productivity
Innovation has long been the engine of economic growth, but today’s R&D efforts are hitting roadblocks. Progress is becoming harder, more complex, and increasingly expensive, signaling a decline in R&D productivity. So, how can leaders turn the tide and unlock the next wave of br ... Show More
23m 54s